Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan

Hubert Van Hoof

Lynn Ayres

David John Brennan

Ruchita Bhargava

Roberto Sonnino

Charles Lamanna

Mauktik Gandhi

Brett A Tanzer

Raimundo Robledo Pontes Filho

Asaf Kashi

Darron Jack Stepanich

Anatoly Victor Koretsky

Mashuri R Libman

Vikram Kakumani

Jack Kabat

Benjamin Travis Stull

Om Krishna

Roopesh Kumar Rajamani

Michael Anthony Navarro

Stéphane Morichère-Matte

Peter John Daoud

Alvin Ji-Fung Lao

Gregory Iannacone

Ronald Nikolai Bartlett Savas

Grace Lam

Sumanth Pasupuleti

Michael Andrew Griscom

A natural language query can be received at a main natural language processor inside a data protection compliance boundary in a computer system. The natural language query can be processed via the main natural language processor. The data from the query can be transmitted to a data protection computer component. It can be determined via the data protection component whether the data from the query includes protected data whose transmission to a computerized extension would violate a computer-readable data protection rule. The extension is outside the compliance boundary in the computer system and is configured to participate in responding to natural language queries received by the main natural language processor. In response to determining that the data from the query includes the protected data, transmission of the protected data from the main natural language processor to the extension as part of responding to the query can be inhibited.

Natural language processor extension transmission data protection

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing group collaboration in the context of productivity applications. In an implementation, a productivity application includes a user interface in which a document may be presented. In addition, a view of a groups feature provided by a social network service may be presented in the user interface to the productivity application. The view may include various options or interacting with the groups feature, such as the ability to create a new group, the ability to post comments to a group in the social network service, and the ability to upload documents to a group.

Productivity applications with views of social network group features

A natural language query can be processed via a main natural language processor. A request to produce an intent of the query can be dispatched from the main natural language processor to an extension natural language processor. An intent of the query can be generated via the extension natural language processor in response to the dispatched request, with the generating of the intent being performed independently of the main natural language processor. The intent of the natural language query can be passed from the extension natural language processor to the main natural language processor in response to the request to produce the intent of the query. A selection of a conversation query processor for responding to the intent can be produced via the main natural language processor. Additionally, an instruction to respond to the intent of the query can be passed to the selected conversation query processor.

Computerized natural language query intent dispatching

Content is received and compared against rules for identifying a type of content. Each rule has both segmented and unsegmented patterns. The content is matched against the patterns and assigned a confidence score that is higher if the content matches a segmented pattern and lower if the content matches an unsegmented pattern.

Language independent probabilistic content matching

System and methods for the implementation and/or enforcement of an email policy for an organization's email system are presented. A Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy may be implemented on top of the email system. In one embodiment, the DLP policy may comprise modules and/or processing that tests emails for such sensitive data within emails. If an email comprises such sensitive data, then the DLP policy directives may specify processing to be applied as part of each stage of mail processing, from authoring to mail processing on the server and delivery. A single policy may be authored and managed that will apply the policy directives uniformly across all aspects of the message lifecycle. Each of the message policy enforcement systems may evaluate the single policy definition and apply the policy directives in a manner consistent with the contextual evaluation of the policy.

Uniform policy for security and information protection

An authoring component determines the sensitivity of an authored document and generates a user interface conveying contextual educational information about data dissemination policies that apply to the document. The user interface also provides user input mechanisms that allow the user to provide inputs affect the enforcement of a given data dissemination policy on the document.

Educating users and enforcing data dissemination policies

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